{"id":12870,"date":"2012-10-20T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2012-10-20T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T06:01:01","slug":"apsus-popular-halloween-concert-returns-for-28th-year-on-october-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/20\/apsus-popular-halloween-concert-returns-for-28th-year-on-october-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU’s popular Halloween concert returns for 28th year on October 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheClarksville, TN<\/strong> – On a warm afternoon last spring, just as the bradford pear trees started blossoming around Clarksville, Austin Peay State University professor of music Dr. David Steinquest sat in his office, dreaming about the dark and gloomy month of October. He\u2019d just heard a rumor that the department of music was purchasing a new Allen concert organ, and the haunting sounds of Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s Toccata in D minor, from \u201cPhantom of the Opera,\u201d played in his head.<\/p>\n

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The APSU Percussion Ensemble’s 2011 Halloween Concert<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI absolutely knew then that the organ had to be the starting point for this year\u2019s Percussion Ensemble Halloween Concert,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd no question, the very first thing on the program was going to be Bach\u2019s Toccata in D minor. You can\u2019t have an organ and not play it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rumor about the organ turned out to be true, so at 6:00pm and 8:00pm on October 30th, the instrument will help usher in the strange blend of music and mayhem that has come to define this wildly popular community concert for the last 28 years. And as always, Steinquest and his band of APSU music faculty members will wear costumes to perform the Halloween-themed music in an eerily decorated concert hall inside the APSU Music\/Mass Communication Building.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very family-friendly concert, and it\u2019s always a sell-out,\u201d Steinquest said.<\/p>\n

The evening\u2019s program will feature old and new classical pieces, such as Igor Stravinsky\u2019s \u201cSacrificial Dance,\u201d Philip Glass\u2019s film score for the movie \u201cDracula\u201d and Bernard Herman\u2019s terrifying composition for Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s controversial 1960 film \u201cPsycho.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople like (famed American composer) Aaron Copeland were so complimentary of how Bernard Herman wrote the music for \u2018Psycho,\u2019 of how orchestral it was,\u201d Steinquest said. \u201cIf Aaron Copeland says it\u2019s OK, I\u2019m OK with putting it on the program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steinquest also wanted to include works by Ludwig von Beethoven on the program, but he didn\u2019t know how the music would fit in with the evening\u2019s macabre theme. Then Steinquest hit on the idea of fusing two of the German composer\u2019s most famous works \u2013 \u201cFur Elise\u201d and \u201cMoonlight Sonata\u201d \u2013 into a sort of Latin-style, dueling piano performance.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a really funny sort of story that goes along with this whole thing, but I don\u2019t want to say what it is,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be really, really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of Steinquest’s friends, Nashville musicians Chris Brooks and Chris Crockarell, will also help out with the evening. The two, however, are notorious for causing trouble at these concerts. One year, they even brought a trash can on stage and played it as if it were an instrument.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere may be metal detectors at all entrances to deter the possibility of anyone trying to get in with a concealed garbage can,\u201d Steinquest said.<\/p>\n

The concert will end with a return of the Allen organ and a performance of Respighi\u2019s \u201cThe Pines of the Appian Way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI found an arrangement that was for this big brass choir, and there is an organ part, there is a part for a piano, and then what I did was use that score to flesh out all the mallet parts,\u201d Steinquest said. \u201cThis is going to be mammoth. It will literally blow everybody out of the back of the concert hall. I\u2019m so excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Admission to the Halloween concert is two cans of food, which will be donated to Loaves and Fishes, or $3.00. The event usually sells out, so contact the APSU Music Department office at 931.221.7818 for tickets or other information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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